This has probably been asked before, but I can't find the actual answer on a search, so I apologise now.

My Octy vRS is on 9.5k miles (after 3.5 months) and the service indicator hasn't come on.

My service book also has the QG1 code stamped in it.

The delivery inspection record though has '1st service at 10000miles' written in it by the delivery garage. (Clockhouse in Notts). I phoned them and they said that the vRS has a fixed service interval of 10k due to it being a high performance car!

From reading threads on this forum I know this to be crap as plenty of you are on variable service.

So how do I find out if I'm I on fixed or variable servicing? I'd prefer to be on variable as I do 30k miles a year!

I was told by Tavistock Motors that Skoda didnt use the variable service.

You can however choose which service schedule you want anyhow, personally i'd stick with the 10,000 miles service schedule, it makes life alot easier.

Get your dealer and ask them to check for you....this will require them to plug in they're 1552 machine in the OBD port......should take no more than a couple of minutes.

With either type of servicing you'll get a 1k count down to when the service is required. I was on 21k and still didn't have the indicator come on......but 12 months was up so had the service done.

HTH.

Adrian.

QG1 is variable servicing. Your car will have come from the factory with the long life oil, and unless the dealer has changed it the service indicator will not come on until approx 18k.

My dealer wrote 10k in the service book and when I questioned them they said it was a mistake, all the latest 20v engines were on variable. Mine was serviced just after 18k for

...and though this has been covered before, it still amazes me how many dealers weren't paying attention the day they covered 'Variable Servicing CSE' in Skoda School. Maybe they don't like to hear it because they make more money out of you with fixed? Do any of our other VAG brand owning members have this problem with their dealers?

Got mine from Clock Garage in Derby. They wrote 10000 mile (or 1 year)

service interval in my Schedule book.

In the very same book it states in black and white that my motor is on QG1 VARIABLE SERVICE... beggars belief !!

Thought about.. :fence3d: but decided it wasn't worth the :banghead:

Needless to say that I have had it variably serviced by now but not at Clock, That didn't stop them popping a reminder through the door that my car was a year old and was due .... a service ! Clueless, I give up

I sympathise with everyone elses frustrations

from my experince on working on them it seems most of the cars leaving the factory are filled with varible serving oil. which means the dash computer is set to come on either 2 years or roughly depending on oil condition 18-20k. but is entily up to the customer what service intervals they require it can be set either way at pdi or servicing.

Thanks for the comments.

Checked my dash today in the daylight and the service indicator is actually on, don't know when it came on as I start the car in the dark in the morning and at night before I turn the lights on so have been missing it - lol!

Interestingly, it was Clock Garage in Derby and not Clockhouse that I got the car from same as 'Stathap' but I got it through Tins so never dealt with Clock, so they never gave me the option of what service I needed.

Looks like they sent it out to me on 10k servicing, so will be ringing them tomorrow and having a chat with them.

I'd prefer variable as I need three 10K services a year which are a real pain.

I think I've read a thread somewhere that it can be converted back to variable, but I can't find it, so can someone confirm this for me.

All RS' come from the factory with long life oil. It looks like the garage has rest your service indicator for fixed so it should be ok to ask them to change it to variable.

For variable it must have the longlife oil.

Cheers.

Adrian.

Had a reply from Clock Garage in Derby as follows;

"...We have not changed the oil in your vehicle. It is still the long life.

We always set the service intervals at 10,000 miles on the vRS because we

have found that most drivers prefer to have that check.

It is no problem for you to wait until 20,000 miles and then it can be

re-set to variable services...."

So just a gentle word of warning if you're going to Clock Garage, - they change the service interval to fixed without giving you the option!

I'm now off to my local garage to get it changed back to variable.

Had a reply from Clock Garage in Derby as follows;

"...We have not changed the oil in your vehicle. It is still the long life.

We always set the service intervals at 10' date='000 miles on the vRS because we

have found that most drivers prefer to have that check.

It is no problem for you to wait until 20,000 miles and then it can be

re-set to variable services...."

.[/quote']

Call me a cynic but I see this as follows:

"We always set the service intervals at 10,000 miles on the vRS because we

have found that we prefer to charge most drivers to have that check.

It is no problem for you to wait until 20,000 miles, but we do not offer you the choice, we know better than the Factory Engineers after all!!, If you really insist then it can be re-set to variable services...."

Paranoid or just "Acutely Aware" ??

Graham

Went up to Gorner Skoda in Warrington and they've re-set the computer to variable servicing and topped the oil up for me and then wanted no money whatsoever for the 1/2 hour it was in the workshop and long life oil they put in

Don't know if anyone else deals with them, but I can only sing their praises and highly recommend them to other Skoda drivers